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Windows 7: How to Update my BIOS?

In short my laptop (ACER ASPIRE 5738G, running W7 Ultimate 32bit as OS) no longer manages to detect both an USB drive and an external HD of mine. Both devices are pretty old but work perfectly on another older PC of mine running VISTA. All my drivers are updated, including the USB ones.

So I went to the BIOS manufacturer (Phoenix) of my laptop and after running this tool (see link below) it urged me to flash my BIOS (Phoenix v.1.05):

Hi there .. So your USB Ports are working apart from two Devices ? Do you have any error Codes ? I have looked at the BIOS updates on the Acer Website .. The most recent one is over three years old .. I do not recommend doing a BIOS update i do not see it improving any thing .. In some cases it can make things worse ..

Hi again .. I do not know any thing about Phoneix but any thing that is asking you for money in my books is a con .. There is nothing on the Acer Website that states that a BIOS update would improve performance to your USB Ports .. It might be that the Devices are just to old for Windows 7 .. As you stated in your first post ..

BIOS updates are not a miracle cure; instead, they are distributed to address specific problems and/or to add specific features. Since, as already indicated, none of the updates address your problem, doing a BIOS update is not going to solve the problem.

PLUS ... any time you do a BIOS update, unless you have a way to both save off the current BIOS and restore it (should something go wrong), you are risking disabling your PC by doing such an update.

if you want to upgrade the bios you can just look around the web for a site that provides free bios updates however this can be risky as you may know as they could be unstable. i would agree with Torah Lishmah.

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